Porto, Portugal, July 12,
2013 - Six teams in the men’s competition of the FIVB Beach Volleyball U19
World Championships in Porto advanced to the elimination phase on Friday with
three straight wins.

Duos from Poland, Austria,
Russia, Germany, Norway and USA advanced without set loss.

In the women’s five teams did
the same, including Poland’s U21 champions Kociolek and Gruszscynska and U23
silver medallist Eduarda and her partner Taina.

Brazil’s Eduarda (14): If all
goes well, we will be the champions

She is still one of the
youngest players at the FIVB U19 World Championships in Porto, but 14-year old
Eduarda Santos Lisboa certainly plays above her age. She already won gold in
the School World Championships in Italy and silver at the FIVB Beach Volleyball
U23 World Championships this year.

On Friday, on the last day of
pool play at the FIVB U19 World Championships, Eduarda and her partner Taina
Silva Bigi won their pool with three straight wins. More

American MVP’s enjoy the sand in Porto

Torey DeFalco and Lucas Yoder are both celebrated
volleyball players in the Junior Nationals in the US, but are doing not so bad
either on the sand in Porto. They topped their pool with three straight wins at
the FIVB Beach Volleyball U19 World Championships.

After 2-0 wins over Zimbabwe and Austria they defeated local heroes Bernardo
Martins and Francisco Pombeiro 21-14 21-18 on Friday. More

Italy’s Concetti and
Zuccarelli beat Russia to top the pool

Italy’s Gaia Concetti and
Agata Zuccarelli topped their pool on Friday at the FIVB Beach Volleyball U19
World Championships after a very tight 2-1 (21-16 16-21 21-19) win over
Russia’s Daria Myshonkova and Valeriya Shvedova.

Both teams booked two
straight wins on Thursday and the final match would bring forth the pool
winner. After winning a set each, the lead in the tiebreak went back and forth
until the Russians had their first match point at 14-13. After four more match
points for Russia and two for Italy, Concetti decided the game with a kill
block. More

Venezuela take first loss,
but still eye a medal

After finishing 25th in Umag
at the FIVB Beach Volleyball U21 World Championships just a few weeks ago
Ronald ‘Bolivar’ Fayola and Jose Gregorio ‘Tigrito’ Gomez from Venezuela have
their eye on a medal here in Porto at the U19 edition in Porto.

Their 2-0 (21-9 21-18) loss
to pool winners Mateusz Lysikowski and Tomasz Wierzbicki on Friday did not
change anything to the original plan. More

The U19 event continues on
Saturday with both men and women playing three rounds of elimination. Only four
teams per gender will remain to compete in the semifinals and medal matches on
Sunday.

The FIVB U19 World
Championships in Porto are the final of three FIVB age group events this year.
Porto hosted the U19 World Championships before in 2010.